Camille Pradon Oullins, b. 1993

Biography
Camille Pradon
Camille Pradon, Sans titre, Radiance 2023

Camille Pradon is a visual artist working between Paris and Tunis. Using the image as a sensitive material, she conducts in-depth research on the concepts of displacement and fragmentary narratives. From video, installation, photography to drawing and ceramics, Camille Pradon fosters a formal language that plays on the porosity between mediums. Her work is regularly exhibited in France and abroad, including at the Manchester Museum of Natural History (UK), Cité internationale des arts and Villa Belleville (Paris), Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale, the Gabes Cinema Fen Festival (Tunisia) and the Wallonie-Bruxelles Centre (Paris). Her essays are part of various art publications including Le Magazine du Jeu de Paume and Point Contemporain. Camille Pradon graduated from the Higher School of Art and Design of Saint-Étienne in 2015, and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Italy. In 2020 and 2021, she held a residency at the Cité internationale des arts de Paris, the Villa Salammbô from the French Cultural Institute of Tunisia and the Grand Tour Residency Program from French Cultural Institute Italia. 

Overview
Camille Pradon
Written Lines (Lignes écrites, Photographs, 2021)
A series of white surfaces, set by coloured discs in which the sun creeps in and creates shadows. These hollows or bowls are integrated into the tombs of the marine cemetery of Sidi Bou Saïd, Tunis Governorate. Traditionally incorporated into the graves to be vessels of seeds and water for the birds living in the area, these small containers act as a bridge between those who passed away and Nature, to which he remains liable. The photographs depicts this infinity of nuances, shadows and lights, revealing the pictorial matter and shape in each frame. Silent constellations anchored to the ground, polished, scaled, washed, cracked and improved over time.
 
Pierres de veille (Photographs, 2022)
Variations on the whitewashed grounds of the Mahdia’s marine cemetery stones, Tunisia. Located at the end of Cap Afrique, this place gathers the collective memory of its people but also, the traces of the elements which wash, erode and polish its stones every day. As well, it is a small theatre of vibrant lives and the crossing  point of an entire ecosystem, such as this colony of ants, trained to roam the surface and the bowels of the world by the thousands, with common perseverance and ardour.
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